Commoner

/ˈkɒm.ə.nə(ɹ)/ · adjective

Meaning

comparative form of common: more common.

Definitions by Sense

1. comparative form of common: more common
2. A member of the common people who holds no title or rank.
3. (British) Someone who is not of noble rank.
4. (obsolete, UK, Oxford University) A student who is not dependent on any foundation for support, but pays all university charges.
5. Someone who has a right over another's land. They hold common rights because of residence or land ownership in a particular manor, especially rights on common land. eg: centuries-old grazing rights
6. (obsolete) One sharing with another in anything.
7. (obsolete) A prostitute.
8. (card games) a rankless or average player in Tycoon; not the tycoon, rich, poor, or beggar.

Example Sentences

Sunday [train] services were far commoner than in later years.

All below them [the peers], even their children, were commoners, and in the eye of the law equal to each other.

It was revealed on Friday that Mountbatten Windsor is in line to receive a large one-off payment and an annual stipend designed to prevent him overspending in his new life as a commoner after a back-and-forth about where he would go after leaving Royal Lodge.

There are to this day fellow-commoners at Queens, and surely such a distinguished commoner as Fuller would have been allowed to remain on that foundation, in which he had spent seven years, in this new capacity. The expense would have been about the same, and the only way in which I can account for his migration is either pique at being passed over, or the friendship of so famed a theologian as Dr. Ward.

Much good land might be gained from forests […] and from other commonable places, so as always there be a due care taken that the poor commoners have no injury.

From the Counsell he was carried home to the Prison, and there for many days kept with bread and water, so that had the proudest Anchorite, pretending to the highest abstinence, been Commoner with him, it would have tried his swiftest Devotion to keepe pace with him.

O behold this ring / Whose high respect and rich validity / Did lack a parallel; yet for all that / He gave it to a commoner o'th' camp, / If I be one.

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